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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,   God-like is it all sin to leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change thenature of the one who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change thenature of the one who prays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Gateway to Soldiers began with a delivery of about 153 bulletproof vests to Camp Shelby, Miss., for the 153rd CAV ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29969]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Gateway to Soldiers began with a delivery of about 153 bulletproof vests to Camp Shelby, Miss., for the 153rd CAV unit out of Ocala. Several people donated the vests to the program, and Adams helped in delivering them to Camp Shelby. Adams said Gateway to Soldiers helps provide support to soldiers and their families, especially those involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.] We want to change somebody, ... We want to build a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39195]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language Mr. Scruggs is contesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town--the tide rose to an incredible height: the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13164]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was their (the state's) request. That's not something we put on the table. We certainly recognize the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32161]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was their (the state's) request. That's not something we put on the table. We certainly recognize the value of that land. It's not our intention to make that part of the transaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34389]]></link><description><![CDATA[She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52790]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22966]]></link><description><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. [Lat., Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore,  Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28485]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is such an incredible friendship and relationship we have, and I know viewers like the way we play off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is such an incredible friendship and relationship we have, and I know viewers like the way we play off each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52094]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8027]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54043]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460]]></link><description><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,   That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious    To have mistrusted her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3104]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responsible choice would be to honor those who have worn our nation's uniform, but the administration made a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responsible choice would be to honor those who have worn our nation's uniform, but the administration made a different choice. They're raising veterans' health care fees by $250 a year while cutting taxes for millionaires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56003]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pardon him as God shall pardon me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pardon him as God shall pardon me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day   Has Spain had heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54593]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;"  Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play,   An' Phoebus himsel' could na travel that day,    As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ... After all, it's the pope. He's not just anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28332</guid></item></channel></rss>